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Originally Posted by issybird
Of course they will. But a narrator could easily influence a reader to interpret a text differently than the reader would have independently. I did say it wasn't necessarily a bad thing, but something's lost there that you get when the reader confronts a text cold.
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I recently listened to a thriller where the narrator performed a sequence with a rising sense of panic in the character. It was exciting and seemed appropriate, but I happened to notice that there wasn't any particular indication of panic from the author in the text; it was apparently the narrator's interpretation. It could have been read other ways--slowly, reflecting a rising sense of dread, for example.
If I'd been reading the words myself? I don't know which emphasis I might have given them.